This book deals with the confrontation of Buddhism and Brahmanism in India. Both depended on support from the royal court, but Buddhism had less to offer in ret

This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE

This book deals with the confrontation of Buddhism and Brahmanism in India. Both depended on support from the royal court, but Buddhism had less to offer in ret

Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development an

The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him cont